All My Movies ~ By Bolide Software

It doesn't always have to be about travel does it? Families still like movie nights, we at least my family does.

I have recently come across a really cool piece of software for cataloging movie software and I want to share it with you.

All My Movies by Bolide

I'm a big movie geek. A couple years ago I started converting all my DVDs over to digital files. It saved a lot of space. My movies took up three or for full sized book cases in my home, so when I say it saved space I mean it saved a lot of space. 

The problem with digital files though is I used to be able to just look at my book case until a movie kind of struck my fancy. Hmmm, there's Armageddon, haven't seen that in a while.  It's a lot harder to do that when your staring at directories on a computer. This software will give you a virtual bookshelf of your movies, It uses the actual DVD art.

Not only that it links to IMDB (The Internet Movie Database). It will display all the movies information on the screen. You can find movies by actor, genre, year, title, just about any way you can imagine.

Virtual bookshelf on the left ~ Movie info from IMDB on the right

You can use it with DVDs or Blue Ray disc as a way to catalog what you have. You can even use it to track those movies if you loan then to friends. Both pretty useful features for those with hard copies of their movies.

For people like me who buy there movies in digital formats now the database will also link directly to files in your hard drive and you can use the virtual launcher to play the movie. To me that is the programs most awesome feature. Grab you soda and popcorn and then pick the movie you want from the virtual bookshelf and hit the play button to start the movie. 

It was exactly what I was looking for when I started looking for movie cataloging software. The only functionality I would add is the ability to export a movie or movies to a USB drive, Phone or Tablet, but that is a small caveat for such an awesome piece of software (Heck it might even do it and I just don't know how yet).

You can download a demo on their website here... BOLIDE SOFTWARE

Fright Fest 2015 ~ Our first bad experience at Six Flags

Let me first off state that a bad time at Six Flags is still better then a good time almost anywhere else. We love Six Flags and we still had a great time for most of our trip.

Sooner or later I guess everyone will have a bad experience at a theme park. I expect the long lines and bad weather. Those are realities of life for a theme park junky, and one of the best reasons to have a season pass. Every now and then though a park makes decisions that adversely affect patrons and leave you scratching your head and wondering why.

We loved Fright Fest at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in 2014. The sights and shows were fantastic.  The final show off the night was so good we stayed an extra night just to see it again. My three year old absolutely loved it, and that is the root of the problem. This year we decided to go to Six Flags over Texas for Fright Fest, but checking the website I believe we would have had the same problem at any Six Flags park.

Fright Fest ~ Six Flags Fiesta Texas 2014

At the 2014 Fright Fest they had no scare zones and glostick necklaces that told their actors not to scare people even in the scare zone. For some reason Six Flags decided that in 2015 to get rid of both these ideas. Not only that they shut down all kiddy rides at 7pm. So my now 4yr old daughter has nothing to do and is getting scared and crying.

We drove 5 hours to get to Six Flags only to have to leave early each night. It seems that Six Flags decided to try and compete with local haunted houses over putting families and children first. The worst part to us is they were not allowing readmittance into the park. So no closing finales for us this year.

It was very disappointing but we did learn some things. Always have a backup plan. We didn't bring much cash to Dallas as we were using season passes so we were kind of stuck. Check the website carefully before deciding to make the drive. It did warn us, "scariest Fright Fest ever". It said nothing about safe zones this year. Lastly check around and see if you can find out all the details about an event before going.

It was still fun (during the day) and we still love Six Flags but I think they really messed up by taking the fun out of the park. If you were there let me know what you think too.

And if you were there and had the same problem we did make sure you let Six Flags know by contacting them here. They can't fix something if they don't know its broken.